If you were to ask me what the current state was between
homosexuality and Christianity, I’m not entirely sure how to answer that one. I
would say it is encouraging to see how many churches are becoming openly
affirming and accepting, but there are still far too many yet that are not
anywhere close; and that makes for a very polarized confrontation surrounding
the issue of the level of acceptance.
However, if there is one thing I could say about all of
this—if I were to, say, write a paper on it—my thesis would essentially be
this: Homosexuality is the one issue that—in
order to survive—I feel the church, as the universal body of Christ, will have
to admit defeat and learn from secular culture that homosexuality is not wrong,
but is instead something to be accepted as a natural part of life and (for some
of us) to be embraced.
